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...prize turkey gets surgery. A choir needs a pianist. Small stuff makes headlines at the "Wheatstone Mercury," a provincial English newspaper and the locus of Andi Watson's "Slow News Day" (Slave Labor Graphics; 24pp.; $3.50each) whose sixth and final issue appeared last week. Watson has simultaneously released a single-issue novella, "Dumped" (Oni Press; 56pp.; $5.95), which along with SND and last year's "Breakfast After Noon," (see TIME.comix review) make a loose trilogy about the lives of England's urban, middle-class singles. Just as the Mercury turns small events into front-page news, Watson makes smart...
...small town paper runs - like choosing between a lost hamster story or a merchant's ad for the cover - we see Owen become more and more conflicted about the direction of his life. Meanwhile Katharine struggles with her long-distance boyfriend. With his subtle approach and care for character, Watson smartly avoids the pitfalls of turning SND into a broad "Ugly American" or "Kooky English" clich?. Instead it settles into a study of people's changing priorities...
...abused books for tantalizing revelations about the previous owner. "This is the section with pages torn out," he says of his collection. "These are crammed full of exam notes." She, Debby, runs a used clothing store. Smitten and desperate Binny finds Debby again and they begin a tenuous relationship. Watson has given us two very convincing male wankers in "Breakfast After Noon" and "Slow News Day," but this time it's the snobbish and secretive Debby who provides the friction. "Binny's not boyfriend material," declares the two-timing Debs. Typical of Watson's style, Binny may not, in fact...
...oblivious film executives breathless, clinging to their armrests, with all the power of an angry storm. The trailer alone, with its eye-popping effects, sleek and postmodern world and hot-as-hell, upside-down kiss between Tobey Maguire as Spider-Man/Peter Parker and Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane Watson, is enough to leave us all drooling for more. What the trailer establishes from the outset is that Spider-Man is the man, hands-down...
...Maybe we shouldn’t be addressing the top five issues since everyone knows, for example, that advising is important,” said Rebeccah G. Watson ’04, another committee member...